Welcome to Our Journal

Keith is a photographer who believes that kids are nearly perfect and that great images capture a bit of that perfection for all eternity. He loves that children don’t filter their emotions. Living loud is their power. And his job is to capture a moment of their uncontained imaginations: your children, unscripted.

Melissa is the studio manager, adoring wife, busy mom and occasional writer that believes she is living the most beautiful life in the whole world.

Keith and Melissa have two amazing daughters, Isabella and Gabriella and a little Jack Russell named Pooch.

This journal is our personal blog about our family, photography, travel and how we are inspired by children in all their authenticity, one beautiful photograph at a time.

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Well there’s nothing we love more than when a mom (or dad) calls us and asks if it’s ok if the family dogs are part of their children’s portrait session. Of course the dogs are welcome!! It is so much fun to incorporate these very important members of the family into the photos. After all, […]

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain As we ring in 2014, these words seem to […]

I wasn’t able to be at Isabella’s first swim meet last month. I guess the hazards of working in the wedding industry is not having weekends to be part of all these special moments. It was a Friday evening, fortunately Keith was able to attend along with both grandmothers, an aunt, a cousin and a […]

It’s like taking candy from a baby. Getting kids to open up and just enjoy themselves during a children’s portrait session is so easy if you have the right elements. Bring children to a park and let them be and the results are just incredible. No posing, just letting the personalities shine through. At first, […]

This past July, Keith was in New York for a job and was able to hook up with Sharon Beesley – author of the fun blog NYC Taught Me. They spent the better part of a beautiful Summer evening together – doing what the family does best: hanging out and having fun! Their family session […]